“You can only deal with so much at one time and when you deal with that, only then can you make other decisions and talk to other people.”

He then turned his attention to the PRLMO, labelling their resistance to move back to one referee as 'ridiculous'.

"The fact is, the referees want to hold the game up because they feel that they need two referees," Fittler told Wide World of Sports' Freddy and the Eighth.

"Considering the whole process of referees, they start as a one (single) referee and right up until they get to NRL, they only then get to two referees.

"10 years ago there was only one referee and in international games there's only one referee, and in Super League in England there is only one referee.

“It's just ridiculous. Totally ridiculous.

“They’ll do a great job, It'd be interesting to ask the referees themselves how many of them are going to sacrifice their opportunity to be a referee as of next week for the sake of having two referees (on the park).

“I just think all of them would say 'No way'.”

Fellow panellist and immortal Andrew Johns agreed with the move back to one referee, however, believed that the pocket referee should remain on the field without a whistle in the short term as they deal with the change.

“No way, there is no way in the world that he (V'landys) will go back,” Johns said.

“I think he listened to what the fans and what some experienced and well-respected people in the game wanted,

“He’s trying to eradicate wrestling and make it more entertaining.

“I think to have one referee, I’d like the pocket referee to stay for a while with no whistle and just control the ruck."